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Electric Sheep
This is a screensaver that uses a p2p network to download incredible high resolution trippy effects. Its the best visualizations I have seen in a long time. Check it out, Electric Sheep. Be aware that there are some security vulnerabilities for old versions.
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Big Bad
Dean’s mini is finally ready. He’s called it BigBad. Have a look at this video and turn your speakers up all the way cause this little thing absolutely screams.
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Some Interesting stuff from Crypto-Gram
British photo ID actually ends up decreasing security abroad. British citizens are able to watch CCTV live from their lounge room – privacy has gone completely out the window. How do you know people won’t use this to track people and then rob them (in the places where the cameras don’t go – and they…
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WoW – AQ Gates open on Medivh
A realm has finally opened the gates to AQ I believe. This post sums up their experiences up to it.
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Dakar Rally
Is anyone else watching this? Its insane. Check it out on 6pm weekday’s on SBS, its a huge rally across Africa. Its got bikes, cars and these huge trucks like giant lorries that tip over all the time and have to get dug out of the sand. The teams help each other out and frequently…
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Things not to do as a Systems Administrator
Try and change the netmask of a computer overseas. It leads to much pain and waking up at 3am to ring the states.
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Django
I recently developed an application in django. Django is a full featured web framework for python, including ORM, automatic admin interface, URL mapper, template and caching systems. Basically if you want to write a blog, or a web forum, or an online poll you will find django to be an incredibly efficient and speedy way…
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Using knoppix to re-install grub
If your MBR is wiped out the easiest solution is to re-install grub. If you have a “rescue” disk this may be simple, but in my experience it almost never is. The solution is to install boot with knoppix, mount your root partition and mount the /dev/ and /proc/ directories inside the chroot. Depending on…